In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.
Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder.
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Details
- Hardcover: 496 pages (Download PDF
) - ISBN-10: 0316247766
- ISBN-13: 978-0316247764
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (May 12, 2015)
- Language: English
In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs Review
A Life in the Arts
Sally Mann's "Hold Still" is a thoroughly remarkable achievement. Her stories -- lush, densely interwoven and filled with allegory -- unfold with an eloquence reminiscent of passages from "One Hundred Years of Solitude". And along the way, her backstage color commentary on the character (and the characters) of the South could give "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" a good run for its money. (Picture a Netflix mini-series titled "The Family of Mann"...).
Emotions In Black & White
I got to know of sally's work through "What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann" documentary. Art and architecture can offer an emotional value only when one’s breath is taken away by such art, when one is checked out for a period of time and can hardly think of anything else other than what they are witnessing through the creation of that artist. I am in possession of few works by Ansel Adams and although I travel to those places that Ansel has photographed time after time, the fact that I am checked out year after year looking at Ansel's photos of the same places that I visit time after time, it still does not take away the emotions that Ansel offers me through his art time after time, as well as to others for centuries to come.
Exceptional
This is easily one of the most accomplished memoirs I have ever read--insightful, smart, funny, and exceptionally well-written. Before reading this book I knew Mann only from the controversies surrounding some of her photographs, but a few pages into this book and I was totally riveted by her storytelling skills and intellectual brilliance. Old family photos, letters, and Mann's own photographs lend texture to an exquisitely crafted memoir. An absolute must-read.
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